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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book retraces power's intensification in Foucault in ways that both allow us to reread Foucault's own conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we might respond to the mutations of power that that have taken place since his death in 1984.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This book retraces power's intensification in Foucault in ways that both allow us to reread Foucault's own conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we might respond to the mutations of power that that have taken place since his death in 1984.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Foucault Beyond Foucault</i> is the first major renovation of the critical representation of Foucault's system in the past twenty years. Jeffrey Nealon successfully challenges the critical prejudices and assumptions that have defined Foucault's legacy, particularly in the North American academy, and stakes out new terrain by productively synthesizing recent developments in political and economic theory with Foucault's own analysis of power and subjectivity in the age of bio-power. In fact, this is the first book that manages to successfully explain the concept itself, a concept everyone is talking about, though no one seems to understand.--Gregg Lambert<br><br>In his slim volume on Foucault, [Nealon] has offered a fascinating interpretation of Foucault's work, one that brings to light previous neglected elements of his thought. Although the stated motivation for Nealon's discussion is to counter the current interpretation of Foucault's ethical works, the result is one of the most interesting interpretations of Foucault to emerge in many years.--<i>Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jeffrey T. Nealon is Professor of English at Penn State University. He is the author of <i>Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction</i> (1993), <i>Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity</i> (1998), and <i>The Theory Toolbox</i> (2003).

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